Here's some food for thought, set up a network. I've done it and it works well because both PC's are using the same recipe folders. No running back and forth between computers with a flash drive. I used my desktop as the host and pointed the laptop to the shared files under "My Network Places". Of course the downside is the desktop has to be running for the files to be available. BTP will still run if it can't see the files on the network. It just reverts temporarily to the default settings. To get everything synched again you'll need to use your trusty flash drive.

EDIT 10/7/08: I just tried running BTP on my lap top with the host computer shut down and doesn't work anymore. This used to work in version 1.0, but doesn't work with version 1.5. Sorry if I lead anyone astray.

I've copied the files from my desk top folder "Recipies" to my lap top and visa versa, and while they are there in my windows directories, they do not appear in the subfolders within the program. I'm not sure why this is happening. For example, I created a Sessions subfolder on my lap top where I save and modify a receipe to reflect results from an actual brew session. I then copied the entire receipes folder, including the Sessions subfolder to my desktop. The files are there, they just don't show up in the beer tools folders when I'm actually trying to view them from within the program. Can you explain what I'm doing wrong? Thanks.

I've copied the files from my desk top folder "Recipies" to my lap top and visa versa, and while they are there in my windows directories, they do not appear in the subfolders within the program.

The recipes folder must be kept with the "BeerTools Pro Library.rsd" folder which contains all the directory information used by BTP. If they get separated, you have to use the Library->Rebuild Library command. It is best to just keep them together though.

If you are not able to set up a network, I mean that you don't have more than one computer in house. You can copy the files to a flash drive so then you carry them. It will be an easy way of doing it. That is what I do for backing up my btp files and inventory. My flash drive also holds 16gb to help out too.